The Red Velvet Cake War

In this riotously funny Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins—Gaynelle,

Peaches, and Jimmie Wyvette—could not have picked a worse time to throw their family

reunion. Their outrageous antics have delighted local gossips in the small town of

Sweetgum (just down the road from Fayro) and the eyes of Texas are upon them, as

their self-righteous Aunt LaMerle is quick to point out.

Having “accidentally” crashed her minivan through the bedroom wall of her husband’s

girlfriend’s doublewide, Gaynelle is one frazzled nerve away from a spectacular

meltdown. Peaches, a saucy firebrand and the number one mortuarial cosmetologist in

the tri-county area, is struggling to decide if it’s time to have her long-absent trucker

husband declared dead. And Jimmie Wyvette, the rough-around-the-edges store

manager of Whatley’s Western Wear, is resorting to extreme measures to outmaneuver

a priss-pot neighbor for the affections of Sweetgum’s newest widower. But the cousins

can’t back out of the reunion now.

It’s on, Gaynelle’s hosting it, and Peaches and Jimmie Wyvette have decided that its

success is the perfect way to prove Gaynelle’s sanity to a skeptical court-appointed

psychologist. Unfortunately, they face an uphill battle as a parade of wildly eccentric

Verdeens gathers on the hottest day of July, smack-dab in the middle of Texas tornado

season.